Clasp for hair ornaments



March 28, 1939. s. F. KAYN ETAL 2,152,313

CLASP FOR HAIR ORNAMEN'TS Filed Oct. 19, 1937 Patented Mar. 28, 1939UNITED STATES cLAsP FOR HAIR ORNAMENT'S Stephen F. Kayn and Daniel D.Whyte, New York, N. Y., assignors to Injection Moulding Corp., New York,N. Y., a corporation of New York Application October 19, 1937, SerialNo; 169,757

, V 5 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in clasps, for hair ornaments orthe like.

Up to the present time, decorative articles such as ribbons, flowers orthe like, have been applied to the hair by means of attached pins,hooks, or the like, interwound with the hair, with the result thatthesame have become easily separated, more particularly upondisturbance.

Broadly, it is an object of this invention to provide for an ornamentalclasp having engagement members on opposite faces, one for the hair uponwhich the clasp is mounted and the other for ribbons, flowers or likedecorative media.

Specifically, it is an object of this invention to provide a clasp forattaching decorative media such as flowers, ribbons, and the like, tothe hair, involving a decorative unit attachable on one face to the hairand having means on the other face for insertion in or engagement withdecorative media for the hair.

These and other advantages, capabilities and features of the inventionwill appear from the subjoined detailed description of one specificembodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a plan view of a clasp for ornaments or the like.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the clasp as applied to the head.

Figure 3 is a bottom view of the clasp.

Figure 4 is an end elevation in section taken along lines 3-3 of Figure2.

Figure 5 is an end elevation in section taken along lines 4-4 of Figure2.

Figure 6 is a front elevation of a modified form of clasp as applied tothe head.

Referring to the reference characters in the drawing, numeral l0represents a clasp body portion formed of plastic material havingdisposed on its upper or outer face H fastener assembly l3, and on itslower or inner face l2 fastener assembly l4, both being pivotallymounted, the first functioning by a horizontal displacement, and thelatter functioning by a vertical displacement.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the fastener assembly l3 on the upper facell of the clasp comprises a resilient swivel element ii in the nature ofa bowed hand, one end or arm iii of which is pivotally mounted on shankl1 and maintained for horizontal displacement by head l8 of an eyeletembedded in body "I, the intermediate section [9 of the swivel elementl5 being bowed upwardly, and the free end or arm thereof having aportion in the same plane as arm I6 thereby to provide for a positivelatching for the fastener assembly l3 to the body.

On the other face l2 of the body there is mounted a second swivelfastening assembly actuable in the vertical plane, comprising a U-shaped spring wire tongue 23 looped as indicated, having side walls 24and 25 leading from the closed end 26 thereof, said tongue being bowedinwardly and clamped at 21 adjacent the inwardly bent free ends 28 and29, resting in horizontal aperture 30 of lug 3|, which is integral withand projects from one end of face l2, thereby providing a pivotallymounted vertically displaceable locking element. At the other end offace l2 there is disposed a vertically upstanding pillar having parallelhorizontal grooves 32 oppositely disposed on its shank 33, the walls 24and 25 of the tongue, adjacent the closed end 26 thereof, I

being normally spaced a distance less than the diameter of the pillar sothat when the resilient tongue is depressed in the direction shown inFigure 2, from that of the dotted lines to the full lines, such wallsare expanded through contact withthe shank 33 of the pillar, and thenupon attaining the grooves 32 of the shank, the pressure being removed,the walls return to their initial condition and rest in the grooves tofirmly clamp the tongue to the pillar; the tongue being of suchresiliency that a vertical movement with respect to the pillar willlatch or unlatch the fastening element l4.

As shown in Figure 2, a ribbon or like decoration 34 may be mounted onthe body III by passing the free end 20 of the fastening member l3through a loop 35 of the ribbon, such loop being positioned at the bowedportion I 9 of the fastening element.

The body or clasp carrying the ribbon or the like may be applied to thehead by enclosing through the gripping action of fastening element tion,and a plurality of fastening devices on op'-" posite faces thereof, eachof said fastening devices comprising a swivel member and a latchtherefor, the swivel member of one of said fas tening devices beingactuable for horizontal displacement about a vertical axis and theswivel member of the other of said devices being actuable for verticaldisplacementabout a horizontal 2. An ornamental clasp comprising a bodyportion and a fastening device disposed on one of the faces of saidclasp, saidfastening device comprising a resilient swivel member pivotedat one end to the body of the clasp for horizontal displacement about avertical axis, and having at one end thereof, a depending projection,and a groove ffimed in said body into which said depending projectionmay be disposed for latching the swivel member to the body.

3. An ornamental clasp comprising a body portion, and fastening deviceson opposite faces of said body portion, the respective fastening deviceseach consisting of a swivel member at one body member cooperating withthe free ends of said swivel members for latching the same.

4. An ornamental clasp comprising a body portion and a fastening devicedisposed on one of the faces of said body portion, said fastening devicecomprising a' resilient swivel member pivoted at one end to the bodyportion for horizontal displacement about a vertical axis, and means onsaid body portiongcooperating with the free end of said swivel memberfor latching the same to the body portion."

5. An ornamental clasp comprising a body por tion and a fastening devicedisposed on one of thefaces of said body portion, said fastening devicecomprising a resilient swivel member pivoted at one end to the bodyportion for horizontal displacement about a vertical axis, an offsettongue formed at the free end of said swivel memher and a groove formedin said body portion into which said offset tongue may be displaced forlatching the swivel member to the body portion.

STEPHEN F. KAYN. DANIEL D. WHYTE.

